On Sat, 2016-04-16 at 10:22 +0100, KatolaZ wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 04:25:20PM -0500, dev wrote:
> >
> > On 04/15/2016 03:36 PM, Linux O'Beardly wrote:
> > > For what it's worth, much of the apt vs aptitude is preference
> > > and
> > > opinion.  However, aptitude does bit better of a job resolving
> > > dependencies and preventing them from breaking your system.
> >
> > Yes, That's what I've always read so I have always used aptitude
> > but
> > in this instance I have packages that will not upgrade via
> > aptitude.
> > I mention this case specifically as the Debian docs[1] say
> > "aptitude
> > is the recommended package manager for Debian".
> >
>
> I might be a bit old-fashioned, but I don't understand anything
> besides dpkg, dselect, apt-get, and apt-cache. And I have never felt
> the need for anything else...

Me too :D